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Many of us have been templated with the idea that to put ourselves first is selfish and wrong.
I encourage you to consider whether you hold to the template that creates guilt when you make a decision to put yourself first.
To step into optimal health, I recommend that you let go of the belief that you serve others best by serving yourself second.
I hold strong that the opposite is true.
When you align to your truest essence, that is when you serve others most efficiently.
Most effectively.
Optimally.The old template where the woman and/or the man of the house plays martyr is best set aside for the history books.
For generations, we have modeled for our children this suboptimal template.
One can ease into this new mindset.
Just as easily it can happen overnight.

Simple tool: ask questions.
How can I follow my passion and my family be optimally supported at the same time?
Am I willing to admit to myself what I really want?
How can I pursue my dreams?
How can I create an optimal life for myself?
Where I thrive.
Where I look forward to waking up in the morning and engaging in my day.
Where the day ends with fulfilment.
Only in your dreams you ask?
I warmly recommend that you question how you came to doubt your true essence and capabilities.

Another simple tool: look for solutions.
How can I make following my dreams win-win?
Every member of my family is optimally supported.
By design that includes me.When I do this for myself, I model for my children how to create a fulfilling life.
If I choose to play martyr to the wishes and needs of the other members in my family over my own wishes and needs, that is a strong education I give to my children.
How to remain unfulfilled in life.
Not an optimal lesson.
I am so bold as to say that none of us would consciously choose this.

Third tool: question assumptions.
The most important assumption to question…
There is a commonly held assumption that the way we have been running as families is the optimal way.
It is not.

Just as in the music industry, we all benefit from doing a cover on the authentic family.
We take the good and we tweak it.
We upgrade it.
We recognize that we are all pioneers.
Scientists experimenting with this most fundamental ecosystem.
The modern family.

Be authentic.
A tall order if overly connected to societal norms.
My translation of normal: suboptimal.
Go for optimal.
The optimal caregiver starts with him or herself.
When one gets that right, better termed optimally, it ripples out to others with ease and grace.Mark my words.

Addendum:
Hint: The optimal caregiver has Energy.
Wakes feeling refreshed.
Falls asleep most nights with a smile in their heart, in their soul.
They nurture resilience and independence within themselves.
They nurture resilience and independence in all of the sovereign beings in their care.
They value the importance of love and attention.
The basic human need to be heard.
To be seen.
To be honoured.
To be loved unconditionally.
Is given optimal attention.

We all strive to do our best.
Our best is a moving target.
Some days we are more capable than other days.
We understand this.
We accept this.
We are this.
We are human beings.
In an optimal world, we are authentic and free.
Freedom can take a little crafting sometimes.
Be the craftsman of your authentic life.
If it is not already it will be beautiful … By design.

The inner child holds the key.
The key to one’s optimal health.
In the hands.
Of a child.
The inner parent has misunderstood.
Their love for the child sees the need to protect that child by taking away the key.
How can a child be left responsible for such an important and relevant task?
Another of many …
Epic.
Misunderstandings.

The inner critic approves of the rationale of the inner parent.
The inner critic and parent could exist as one distorted entity.
Or be two separate ones.
Or somewhere in between.
The adultshave had their turn with the key.
For millennia now.
Stuck in a loop we are.
Time for the inner children to take a turn now.

Children naturally align to joy.
They look for.
And find.
Activities that they enjoy.
The idea of settling for suboptimal is counterintuitive to a child.
Our current normal is better termed suboptimal.
Go for optimal.
Says one’s inner child.

The inner critic is unable to meet the needs of the inner child.
The inner parent is unable to meet the needs of the inner child.
No worries.
The inner child is fully capable of meeting his or her own needs.
As long as the adults allow the natural course.
If one is unable to help,
At least do not hinder.
It is time …
To enable and empower one’s inner child.
Now.

The inner child sees clearly.
Holds no grudges despite the routine boundary-crossings in the name of love.
The child understands the good intentions behind the captivating habits of our world.
The child embraces, nurtures and treasures all aspects of itself when in the optimal state.
No need to conceptualize or label the current state of affairs.
Simply give the inner child the key that so naturally belongs in his or her hand.
The emotional GPS will instantly initiate.
The natural attraction to what feels good leads the evolution to an optimal state.

Children are silly, curious, intelligent, playful and lighthearted … By design.
It is optimal for us to keep this aspect alive and flourishing as part of who we are.
Eternally.
(1000)

Upside Down by Jack Johnson, Curious George features prominently.
Video as a whole (800)

A willingness to have one’s heart broken open will allow the highest evolution.
It is a heart-first process.
The mind must symbolically step aside.
It is when one learns to do this that one’s true evolution can begin.
The heart breaks open.
Self-actualization begins.

So seek out the lover.
Sit beside your neighbor/your friend after tragedy or grief.
Look straight on when you see another’s heartbreak in progress.
Resist the temptation to look away.
Not to judge or scold, but to feel the heartbreak as it is our own.
Not required to fix it but to fixate upon it … even for a short while.
Recount your stories of heartbreak.
Not to be victim but to be real.
In this fashion, we chip away at our collective hearts.

Witness the grotesque masterpiece.
Feel the discomfort as the tragic characters fight upon the stage.
Steady your gaze.

The walls of our hearts crumble slowly at first, then suddenly collapse.
After a lifetime of assault against the heart, it opens.
As is its innate function.
What we have been taught to fear is the most beautiful milestone of all.
How is it that the heart can be open all the way, yet can always open
… just a little bit more?

The universal, foundational problem in our world:
When we allow the rules, both written and unwritten, of society to overturn the true, authentic feelings in our hearts.
The world cannot know peace until we are free to attune to love, our natural state.
The world will know peace when each individual in turn …
Connects to their own truth, their own heart.
The rules of the collective consciousness to date are an epic misunderstanding of Natural Law.
The greatest value is to optimize and harmonize each individual.
Can be done only under the direction of the individual themselves.
So much, perhaps all, of our society is built around systems that aim to put a crutch …
into the individual’s power and freedom.
With individual authentic harmonization and optimization,
The ripple effect will spill out into any and all systems.
When this happens in a wider way,
A threshold will be reached in the world when it will finally know peace.

The antidote to living inauthentically is first to see clearly.
See reality clearly.
Optimally.
Relevantly.
There is an epidemic to clinging to the mind’s linear logic.
The mind has a limited view on reality.
To see optimally,
One must transcend the mind’s limited perspective.
Seeing clearly.
Purely.
Correctly.
The mind of dual logic cannot possibly comprehend.
For something to be correct,
Something else is perceived as wrong.
Logic relevant to Human Optimization is non-dual.
Consider four-point logic as quantum physicists have been doing for decades.
Along with Mystics and many others.
To flog a two-point logic form of reality is politely termed suboptimal.Go for optimal.

I plead that it is time …
For human beings to see clearly, optimally, purely the four-point logic reality that is available now.
It has always been available.
What is missing is more human beings willing to expand to this more optimal perspective.
You are free to choose.
Choose wisely.
Essential that everyone is free to live out their choice.
Live and let live.
Your wrongcould easily be another’s right.
To continue to choose two-point logic – normal/abnormal, right/wrong – is to choose to continue with the entangled mess we have made in this world.
Four-point logic:
The choice …
For Peace and Harmony.

A glitch in our program has led us to believe that something outside ourselves does not allow us to be who we truly are … fully.
The epic misunderstanding is that it is our failing to recognize our own creative power,
our unclaimed freedom, that prevents our being free.
When we choose to step into our power and freedom, we are instantly powerful and free.
We are free the moment we choose to step out of the cage.
The door has always been open.
The feeling that we are confined and constrained in any way is an illusion …
Of epic proportions.
The antidote: To see clearly.
Requires four point logic.
Simply that.
A nonevent really.
You have always been free to choose.
You have not been conscious of your choices.
You have not always been directed to the relevant choices.
Until now.
There is no one to blame.
Nobody intended for the state of affairs that presently exists in the world.
The glitch within our limited minds.
Once we shine a light on this,
Our minds have access to unlimited capacity.
Prerequisite: Attunement to love.
It is a quantum physical act within the capabilities of each and every human being.

Attunement to the energetic vibration of love.
Is the key.
To everything your heart desires.

To apologize and simultaneously forgive everyone, including self,
For the perception of a lack of love and freedom …
Is a powerful force indeed.
Each voice added to this prayer strengthens a new prosperity for all.
Following the format of the Ho’ Oponopono Prayer of the Cahunas in Hawaii:

I am so sorry that you feel/felt a lack of love and freedom in your Reality.Please forgive me for any and all the times my actions,thoughts or intentions knowingly/unknowingly reduced your power or freedom.I forgive you for any and all the times your actions, thoughts or intentions knowingly/unknowingly reduced my power or freedom.I love you.Thank you.

By working through this today,
The veil of illusion has been lifted.
Not just for myself and those close to me but everyone.
We boldly go where rarely man has gone before.
Future filled ultimately with Freedom.
And Love.
From this simple clarity, the Earth and all its inhabitants will bloom.

An effective and succinct prayer:More than anything,I want to see clearly.Vision can do no harm,Only bless.A quote from the Course in Miracles.My translation of Miracle = Truth, not yet optimally recognized.

Addendum November 15, 2017
I re-read this piece today and see that I did not attempt to explain four-point logic, better termed Four-Valued Logic by Russell Targ.
I came to use this term after reading his book, Unlimited Mind.
I will quote some text from the first chapter:Nagarjuna introduced a four-valued logic system in which statements about the world can be (1) true, (2) not true, (3) both true and not true, and (4) neither true nor not true – which Nagarjuna believed was the usual case – thereby illuminating what is known as the Buddhist Middle Path.(skipped some)The two-valued Aristotelian logic we use every day is simply inadequate to describe the data of modern physics, while the four-valued logic system appears quite outside Western consideration and thought. A seeming paradox in physics that may well find its resolution in “four-logic” is the so-called wave/particle paradox. It is well known that, under the conditions of various experimental arrangements, light displays either wave-like or particle-like properties. But what, then is the essential nature of light? This question may not be amenable to our familiar system of logic, and may be better addressed by an expanded logic system. We might say, for example, that light is (1) a wave, (2) not a wave, (3) both a wave and not a wave, (4) neither a wave nor not a wave.

This is how we are able to be both a self and not a self – both separated as bodies and not separated in awareness. Four-logic shows that the so-called problem of mind-body duality is not a paradox at all. I discuss this here because four-logic is really the handmaiden of nonlocality, wherein things are neither separate nor not separate.(End to the Russell Targ excerpt).

An attempt to demystify the Mystic. I could define the Mystic as one who experiences AND accepts this four point logic. Psychic abilities that can sound so impossible, becomeeasy … and natural.

I feel to add here: When I first read this excerpt, I felt the truth in it.
AND …
I playfully made my own little four point assessment tool to discern the world around me:
1. Relevant
2. Irrelevant
3. Relevantly irrelevant
4. Irrelevantly irrelevant
I have a lot of fun with this scale to this day.Some pearls of wisdom are simply keepers.

For those I am collaborating with, I vibed this piece out today (November 15, 2017) at 1000.
Surprises me. My addendum did not change that.
Perhaps it is me that has changed??
I am nothing if not dynamic.
True for everyone.
That is where we get easily pulled astray.
We wrongly assume that the Truth is static and absolute.
When it may serve us optimally to consider that the Truth is relative and dynamic.

When one is suffering, optimal questions:
How am I resisting the truth?
Where in my life am I resisting the truth?
What is true for me?
The truth of who I really am.
The truth of what inspires me.
The truth of what is the most authentic for me to do within myself and within the world.
The truth of my innocent nature,
No matter what my past history.

By experience I know.
When I start asking optimal questions,
I start receiving optimal answers.

When to start?
How ’bout now?
Whenever you choose really.
However you choose.
With whomever you choose.
Wherever.
Goes without saying.

To make a change.
Make a choice.
Be willing to see clearly.
To understand your triggers.
Where you feel sensitive and your feelings get hurt,
That is where you are misunderstanding.
The misperceived actions of the other,
Are clearly pointing out for you where you are wounded.
A lower energetic vibration in motion is stuck.
Awareness to this fact is in itself the healing.
I prefer the word optimization.

To hang on to wounded feelings,
not recognize the significance when they get triggered:
Suboptimal.

One can choose to suffer.
It is equally easy to choose another state.
Go for optimal.
My hope for you is that you are at least Aware.
Shining awareness into some of the dark corners of our subconscious is all that is required to optimize.

Attuning to the energetic vibration of love…
Is nothing personal.
Simply a choice.
Having no relevant connection to the past.
I consider any other choice as an epic misunderstanding.
That is how I choose to frame my view.

I see suffering all around me.
It ignites a deep compassion.
A simple misunderstanding.
Clarification awaits.
The only requirement:
A willingness to see clearly.

I call that,
Beautiful Truth.

It cracks my heart wide-open,
To see, so many examples,
Of suffering,
In a fog,
Of a Simple.
Misunderstanding.

I offer you the knowledge:
The clarification is within your grasp.
Every moment.
Especially now.
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Perennial Philosophy is a term for the highest common factor present in all the major wisdom traditions and religions of the world.
Following was taken directly from the book Limitless Mind by Russell Targ.
I started to transcribe a section, morphed into paraphrasing that landed me on a beautiful tangent.
Aldous Huxley describes the many levels of awareness associated with the Perennial Philosophy.
First Principle:
Consciousness is the first building block of the Universe.
The world is more like a great thought than a great machine.
Human Beings can access all of the Universe through our own consciousness and our nonlocal mind.
We have a dual nature.
Local and nonlocal.
Material and nonmaterial.
The purpose of life is to become one with the universal nonlocal loving consciousness.
Available to us.
The purpose of life is to … (OK, here is where I leave the text.)
Align with our authentic multidimensional self.
Attune to our multi dimensional self.
Break away from entrainment to outside sources.
External signals.
To recognize, attune and entrain to our own … distinct … signal.
You are here for a reason.
The best resource to discover your reason …
Is yourself.
To know this is not truly an answer.
More a signpost.
You are free to explore.
Many signposts on the road.
This is simply one of them.
You may choose to take notice.
Or cast it aside from your attention.
You may choose to come back and look at the signpost in the future.
Or never.
It is not the way.
Simply a signpost.
Its meaning is given by you.
You interpret it.
You decide if your initial interpretation is optimal.
You continually choose in each moment to adjust your course on your journey.
On your path.
Discernment is in the eye of the beholder.
When you find joy in your exploration, it is by design.
You can just as easily choose a path that brings any emotion through you.
Awareness of our creative freedom and power comes into focus as it does …
… Or does not.
Each of us writes our own story.
Whether we are mindful of it or not will influence our state of being …
…. Immensely.